{"id":1809,"date":"2024-12-01T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:11:47","slug":"a-korean-wave-of-thoughtful-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"A Korean Wave of Thoughtful Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the seismic shift on the global entertainment landscape known as <em>hallyu, <\/em>stemming from a Chinese phrase meaning \u2018Korean wave,\u2019 including everything from fashion to skin care, K-pop music, and the romance of K-dramas, we also glean timeless cultural customs for living with added measures of kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wherever you call home, these eleven tender K-Cozy gestures open the heart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wipe a friend\u2019s tears and yours will be wiped away too.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Never eat or drink alone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Share an umbrella in rain or sun (even with a stranger).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remember ordinary things can be fancy\u2014like pastry shops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eat something spicy when you\u2019re sad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wear couple t-shirts and socks (or anything matching) with a BFF.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When a friend is sick, stop by the pharmacy on your way to deliver comfort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help the elderly across the street\u2014or anyone struggling (as with luggage at a train station).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instead of giving directions, accompany the other all the way to their destination.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kick those street shoes off at the door and slip into a pair of comfy house slippers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eat cake.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Donna K. Wallace, who lives spaciously in Big Sky Country Montana, is mom to a global traveler and enjoys visiting other countries too, meeting new friends and learning traditions of cordiality\u2014most recently in Seoul\u2014where her daughter attended Korea University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the seismic shift on the global entertainment landscape known as hallyu, stemming from a Chinese phrase meaning \u2018Korean wave,\u2019 including everything from fashion to skin care, K-pop music, and the romance of K-dramas, we also glean timeless cultural customs for living with added measures of kindness. Wherever you call home, these eleven tender K-Cozy gestures open the heart: Donna K. Wallace, who lives spaciously in Big Sky Country Montana, is mom to a global traveler and enjoys visiting other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}